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Case of the seamstresses. : Certificate, signed by thirty Philadelphia ladies of respectability and competence to decide on the subject it discusses: ...

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC8 C1892 C799p v. 3 no. 70
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
Evans, Cadwallader.
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Pamphlets of the Mathew Carey Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Wages--Clothing workers--United States.
Wages.
Wages--Women--United States.
Wages--Women.
Wages--Clothing workers.
United States.
Women--Employment--United States.
Women.
Women--Employment.
Women--United States--Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 20 cm
Other Title:
Carey's miscellanies vol. 9. PPL
Pamphlets of Mathew Carey. v. 3 no. 70 PU
Fingerprint:
ede- c.r- y.es 0.." (C) 1833 (Q)
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : [publisher not identified], [1833]
Notes:
Commentary and extracts of correspondence on employment conditions of women.
Caption title, with first lines of text.
"The ladies' names are omitted from motives of delicacy."--p. [1].
Signed on p. 2 by Cadwallader Evans and twenty-four others, including Mathew Carey.
"Extract of a letter from a respectable widow in Boston, dated October 6, 1833."--p. 3.
Local Notes:
Culture Class Collection copy is v. 3 no. 70 in a collection of Mathew Carey Pamphlets bound together.
Cited in:
Checklist Amer. imprints, 767
OCLC:
84237867

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